Transformers Movie - Autobots and Decepticons revealed

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:40 pm

*SPOILER ALERT*

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The Autobots and Decepticons who will be in the Movie have been announced! here they are:

Autobots:
Optimus Prime--The Valiant Leader.

Bumblebee--Underdog/Scout First Transformer on Earth.

Jazz--Stylish guy, takes pieces of foreign cultures he likes the best and adapts to them.

Ratchet--Medic/Science Officer.

Ironhide--Autobot Muscle/Warrior, Optimus' oldest friend, Roughneck

Decepticons:
Megatron--His evil will be more in depth, very arrogant, hates humans.

Starscream--Backstabber, still questions what would happen if he were to lead.

Brawl--New Character Mad all the time. Like Ironhide First non flying Decepticon.

Bonecrusher--New Character Closest thing to a Constructicon--Hates all other Decepticons other than Megatron.

Barricade (Cop Car)--New Character The Decepticon Hunter/Tracker.

Frenzy--Originally going to be Soundwave, but changed (Small spy).

Blackout--Takes out Earth Defense Systems with an EMP. Also in charge of transporting Decepticons, has a large alt. mode.

Scorponok.

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:25 pm

Interesting. Small cast though, doesn't quite fit with the huge 'invasion' it seemed to be billed as. Ho hum.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:47 pm

The Autobot line up, while pleasing, is pretty generic. Especially compaired to the Deception line up which has several new characters.

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:15 pm

The 'bot lineup doesn't seem to serve any real military purpose either.

1. Prime- ultimate leader, inspiration to all our forces, holder of our essence-of-God-life-giving-arteface. Why dump him on an inhospitable world to fight guerilla warfare with a small band of soldiers with a good chance of getting snuffed?

2. Ironhide. One warrior. ONE. To face about 6 Decepticon killing machines, we attached ONE soldier to this mission.

3. Ratchet. He's going to be needed considering how poorly thought out this lineup is.

4. Bumblebee- scout. We're facing some of the most evil and powerful creatures in the Universe and we're packing... a snout. Wow. So when he comes back and tells us we're massively outnumbered and outgunned, at least we'll know where we stand!

5. Jazz- we had a spare seat and he had nothing better to do.

Given the set up wouldn't a commando unit be better? Like the Dinobots? People who are trained warriors, used to alien worlds, able to get the job done... rather than a ragbag collection of Who's-Who from the Autobot ranks.

At least the Decepticon lineup sounds vaguely suited to an undercover mission of conquest, if a bit thin on numbers. Prime's bunch sounds like an outing of mates going on a picnic!

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:21 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:The 'bot lineup doesn't seem to serve any real military purpose either.

4. Bumblebee- scout. We're facing some of the most evil and powerful creatures in the Universe and we're packing... a snout.

Best. Typo. Evah!!!11oneone1!

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:22 pm

It wasn't a typo, it means an undercover policeman/informant afaik o.o

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:33 pm

why add characters when classic ones already existed?

also - why not just have loads of stand ins that dont have to talk much perhaps just get involved etc..

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:40 pm

lifesize cardboard cutouts ahoy

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:09 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:why add characters when classic ones already existed?

This is what I wanted to know.

Then it hit me.

Toys......must sell toys....

I wish they had kept to their word and made this G1. As far as I'm concerned, this is yet another Armada-like/Cybertron-like/Energon-like reboot with characters with the same names.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:40 pm

Yaya wrote:
Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:why add characters when classic ones already existed?
This is what I wanted to know.

Then it hit me.

Toys......must sell toys....

But lets take optimus, he has new body but its almost the same as before - so they can still make a new toy to sell.

JawBreaker · Post by **JawBreaker** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:08 am

Are you guys ever happy ? Didn't it start of saying it was going to be 3 bots and 3 cons!?
Anywho wile on the subject of the film has everyone seen this-

http://www.thetf.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=5192&PN=1

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:24 am

I'm rarely happy with things I don't like.

Those pictures look pretty rotten imo

Why on earth have they got wires, pipes and bits of machinery exposed, surely they'd be covered in some sort of armour? Unless they have more 'skin' to add by CGI, but it doesn't look likely.

Bumblebee seems to be the illegitimate sprog of Robocop II.

Wonder what Megsy looks like?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:39 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:Bumblebee seems to be the illegitimate sprog of Robocop II.

And Scorponok looks like a house robot out of Robot Wars.

Looks like, obviously to 'help' the audience tell the good guys from the bad, the Autobots will have relatively pleasant appearances, while the Decepticons will look 'nasty'.

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:53 pm

Hopefully they might do some last minute renaming as well in the style of Star Wars- like General Grievous etc. That way the audience will be in no doubt who the villains are. As Maddox observed - "Why not just name the characters 'good' and 'bad'?"

Starscream looks like an orangutan.

I mean, I like orangutans and all, heck they're my favourite primate, but they're not quite what I had in mind for Decepticon aerospace commander..

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:50 pm

Those recent car ads (transforming robot dancing, skating) showed you can stick with the classic sort of appearance and keep flexibility. Don't know why they didn't go for that sleeker look myself.

Autobot 420 · Post by **Autobot 420** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:18 am

I think the bot line up is good, but monkey starscream dose look freeking odd as hell.

p.s. if my sig is too big someone just tell me.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:01 pm

I'm not fussed about there being new characters, so long as they fit the function required of them in the story.

Yeah, it'd be nice to have Thundercracker in it, but if part of the plot requires a police car, I'd prefer it to be a character created specifically for that role than trying to wedge Dead End or somebody into it. Especially after the whole Juggernaut-in-name-only bit of X3...

New continuity. Reboot, yadda yadda. I'm cool with that. Complete divorce from what's gone before.

And I get to laugh at the robot modes.

Autobot 420 wrote:p.s. if my sig is too big someone just tell me.

It's too big.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:14 am

redesigns and the cast list bother me far less than some of the characher descriptions, it all sounds pretty cartoonlike to me, which is not an apporach i would tend to favour.

that said i'm judging on fairly scant descriptions, so hopefully there will be a bit more to characters like Brawl & Bonecrusher than is implied above.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:22 am

some of these designs looks a bit **** to me...

Prime looks all manga like - scorpynok is a scorpion, Starscream a big ape bumblebee looks totaly stupid... I dunno...

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:40 am

Well... that was certainly different.. And I'm a bit disappointed that not more of the classic Con's are in it.. I mean heck! It's all classic Autobots! But nearly no classic cons??

Scorponoks toy looks ace tho. Love that scorpion.

I must look closer for Starscream... Bumblebee didn't look entirely horrid tho.

EDIT: AAAAAARRRGH!!!

They DID go with Munkey-scream after all! Dear god... he looks like fricken Beast Machines Skywarp/Jetstorm... Madness!

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:53 am

Predabot wrote:AAAAAARRRGH!!! They DID go with Munkey-scream after all! Dear god... he looks like fricken Beast Machines Skywarp/Jetstorm... Madness!

And if they are all in proportion to their alt modes, Screamer will be gigantic compared to the 'bots. Not neccessarily a bad thing. If he is so massive the simian frame may look more suitable than his traditional style. As long as the characterisation is there, it could be ok...

I agree with Impy about Prime and Bumblebee.....they just dont look right. That whole skeletal thing; it just doesn't say TFs. They could almost be any generic sci-fi robots.

Post by **snarl** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:58 pm

Concept is cool enough.

Delivery is *****

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:23 pm

Some thoughts from the writers:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.ph ... 3&id=37550

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:52 pm

I've just realised what's bugging me on it.

They've been designed as vehicles than change into robots.

Rather than robots that are hiding in vehicles.

If that makes sense.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:37 pm

Brendocon wrote:I've just realised what's bugging me on it.

They've been designed as vehicles than change into robots.

Rather than robots that are hiding in vehicles.

If that makes sense.

Yes. Yes it does.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:04 pm

Brendocon wrote:I've just realised what's bugging me on it.

They've been designed as vehicles than change into robots.

Rather than robots that are hiding in vehicles.

If that makes sense.

Y'know, i think you've just nailed it. Yup, makes perfect sense.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:59 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:Hopefully they might do some last minute renaming as well in the style of Star Wars- like General Grievous etc. That way the audience will be in no doubt who the villains are. As Maddox observed - "Why not just name the characters 'good' and 'bad'?"

Starscream looks like an orangutan.

I mean, I like orangutans and all, heck they're my favourite primate, but they're not quite what I had in mind for Decepticon aerospace commander..

That is again, such a classic line that I'll have to quote it in my sig...

Hope you don't mind.

And btw orangutans are my fav. primates as well... I even held one (well a very small one...) in my hand once.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:57 am

A new pic of Optimus Prime has been leaked!

Not that bad perhaps.. but he does look a bit on the gaudy side, doesn't he?

Autobot 420 · Post by **Autobot 420** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:39 am

I think I've been to hard on this movie mabey it might be good.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:00 am

Hmmm... i have a sinking feeling...